Ask HN: Is there a list of banned sites anywhere?

Just wondering. I regularly read 15-30 sites with commentary (I love listening to smart people argue about difficult subjects) I just posted something from the Washington Times, and it was made auto dead. While the Times does a LOT of political hackery stuff (much like HuffPo) on rare occasion it has something of value. (This was a piece about endemic corruption from both parties in Congress. I was interested as a hacker to see what kinds of structural reforms HN'ers might purpose, including apps and sites, that could help. I feel that if we don't describe problems, we never get around to solving them.) So is there a list somewhere? Or do we just submit things and then see whether the auto-kill takes them or not? Isn't there some kind of penalty for the poster if they post things from bad sites?